Open Heart

Aug 24, 2004

1h 30m

★ 6.0

Overview

Things appear to be looking up for a cash-strapped, regional hospital when it hires a reputedly brilliant cardiac surgeon to head up its pediatric cardiac surgery unit. But when increasing numbers of children begin dying on the operating table, the unit's top O.R. nurse begins to suspect that the new surgeon is not as experienced as everyone has been lead to believe. She finds herself alone, faced with jeopardizing the career she loves by taking on the powers that be and blowing the whistle on the influential surgeon and the harrowing goings-on at the hospital.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Barna-Alper Productions

CTF | FCT

Canada Broadcasting Corporation

Movie Central Network

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Cast

Sherry Cardinal

Megan Follows

Alan Kenning

Raoul Bhaneja

Lynn Riddick

Kim Roberts

Katie Cardinal

Nicole Maillet

Lise Beauchamps

Roxanne Jean

Peter Lee

Russell Yuen

Mark Gover

Vincent Walsh

Dale Wyman

Karl Pruner

Gunther Bericht

Joseph Ziegler

Tanya Mallory

Athena Lamarre

Karen Blackstock

Lisa Gallant

Nikki

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